BILLS REFERRED TODAY

Thursday

May 11, 2023

Committee referral on the following:

Relating to required labeling of meat food products that contain mRNA vaccine material.

Health & Human Services

Proposing a constitutional amendment to abolish the office of county treasurer of Galveston County.

Local Government

Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the legislature to define certain terms for purposes of the exemption from ad valorem taxation of farm products in the hands of a producer and to authorize the commissioners court of a county to exempt from ad valorem taxation by each political subdivision that taxes the property the portion of the assessed value of a person's property that is attributable to the installation in or on the property of a rainwater harvesting or graywater system.

Local Government

Proposing a constitutional amendment relating to the right to own, hold, and use a mutually agreed upon medium of exchange.

Business & Commerce

Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize a limitation on the total amount of ad valorem taxes that a political subdivision other than a school district, county, municipality, or junior college district may impose on the residence homesteads of persons who are disabled or elderly and their surviving spouses.

Local Government

Proposing a constitutional amendment providing for the dedication of certain sales and use tax revenue to a special fund established in the state treasury to pay for water infrastructure in this state.

Finance

Relating to border protection and economic development services, programs, and other measures, including establishing educational programs and the border protection unit, in this state to address the effects of ongoing disasters, including disasters caused by transnational and other criminal activity and public health threats.

Border Security

Relating to installment payments of ad valorem taxes imposed on residence homesteads in certain counties.

Local Government

Relating to the provision of notice of certain proposed rules by state agencies.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the criminal and licensing consequences of certain offenses relating to the possession of marihuana, certain tetrahydrocannabinols, certain synthetic cannabinoids, and drug paraphernalia; imposing a fee.

State Affairs

Relating to the ballot application requirements for the election of a precinct chair.

State Affairs

Relating to solicitation of patients and other prohibited marketing practices and the establishment of the task force on patient solicitation; increasing criminal penalties.

Health & Human Services

Relating to a statement by the secretary of state regarding the furnishing of certain personal information on an application for a ballot to be voted by mail.

State Affairs

Relating to a limitation on civil suits against persons reporting suspicious activity in good faith.

State Affairs

Relating to property owners' association fines.

Local Government

Relating to the issuance of certain search warrants by statutory county court judges.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the places a public employer may provide for employees to express breast milk.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the authority of certain municipalities to change the date of the general election for officers.

State Affairs

Relating to program accessibility for female inmates of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

Criminal Justice

Relating to procedures in certain suits affecting the parent-child relationship filed by the Department of Family and Protective Services.

Health & Human Services

Relating to local regulation to enforce child custody orders; authorizing a civil penalty.

State Affairs

Relating to the disposition of abandoned or unclaimed property seized by a peace officer.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the administration of a medication and the ordering and administration of an immunization or vaccination by a pharmacist.

Health & Human Services

Relating to an exemption from the application of the Private Security Act for volunteer security services provided at certain places or events.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the period for which a person is required to register as a sex offender based on the offense of compelling prostitution.

Criminal Justice

Relating to restricting access to sexual material harmful to minors on an Internet website; providing a civil penalty.

State Affairs

Relating to the prescribing and ordering of Schedule II controlled substances by certain advanced practice registered nurses and physician assistants.

Health & Human Services

Relating to a training program for persons investigating suspected child abuse or neglect.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the authority of a municipality to regulate veterinarians.

Water, Agriculture & Rural Affairs

Relating to telemedicine medical services and telehealth services covered by certain health benefit plans or provided by a pharmacist.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the recovery of fees, court costs, and expenses in family law proceedings.

Jurisprudence

Relating to the investigation of municipal fire fighters in certain municipalities.

Local Government

Relating to the election of the board of directors of the Terry Memorial Hospital District.

Local Government

Relating to matters affecting the powers and duties of the Texas Ethics Commission.

State Affairs

Relating to a grant program to provide free public school prekindergarten programs to certain children who are eligible for the subsidized child-care program administered by the Texas Workforce Commission.

Education

Relating to the relationship between managed care plans and optometrists and therapeutic optometrists.

State Affairs

Relating to the oversight and election of board members for certain emergency services districts.

Local Government

Relating to the amendment of restrictive covenants of certain residential subdivisions.

Business & Commerce

Relating to funding for The University of Texas at Tyler's school of pharmacy.

Subcommittee on Higher Education

Relating to a study by the secretary of state on the feasibility of central counting stations complying with federal standards for facilities that contain sensitive information.

State Affairs

Relating to the course levels offered at Sul Ross State University Rio Grande College.

Subcommittee on Higher Education

Relating to depression screenings for certain women in county jail or in the custody of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the establishment of a new open-enrollment charter school campus by certain charter holders and to the expansion of an open-enrollment charter school.

Education

Relating to public school bilingual education programs, dual language immersion programs, and special language programs.

Education

Relating to designating March 4 as COVID-19 Heroes and Memorial Day.

Administration

Relating to the administration by the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs of a homeless housing and services program for youth and young adults.

Local Government

Relating to county appropriations to historical foundations or organizations.

Local Government

Relating to the criminal offense of abandoning or endangering a child, elderly individual, or disabled individual.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the terminology used to describe transportation-related accidents.

Transportation

Relating to HIV and AIDS tests.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the authority of a natural gas local distribution company to offer energy conservation programs.

Natural Resources & Economic Development

Relating to including an understanding of certain political ideologies in the foundation curriculum in public schools.

Education

Relating to training materials for certain transportation network company drivers regarding human trafficking awareness and prevention.

Business & Commerce

Relating to noncharitable trusts without an ascertainable beneficiary.

Business & Commerce

Relating to employee-owned companies.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the eligibility of certain at-risk developments to receive low income housing tax credits.

Local Government

Relating to the view of the State Capitol.

Subcommittee on Higher Education

Relating to training and certification requirements for inspectors of public swimming pools, including spas, and artificial swimming lagoons.

Business & Commerce

Relating to policies and procedures regarding children placed by the Department of Family and Protective Services in a residential treatment center or program.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the investigation of certain motor vehicle accidents.

Transportation

Relating to the employment of peace officers who seek or receive mental health care.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the definition of qualified employee for purposes of the enterprise zone program.

Natural Resources & Economic Development

Relating to grounds for the involuntary termination of the parent-child relationship.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the postponement of a hearing for a temporary order in certain family law cases referred to mediation.

Jurisprudence

Relating to the deposit of funds into court registries by the clerks of justice courts.

Jurisprudence

Relating to neglect of a child and the grounds for termination of the parent-child relationship and possession of a child by the Department of Family and Protective Services.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the appointment of a guardian ad litem in certain suits filed by the Department of Family and Protective Services.

Jurisprudence

Relating to the establishment of the office of food system security and resiliency in the Department of Agriculture.

Water, Agriculture & Rural Affairs

Relating to the authority of the Railroad Commission of Texas to require water pollution abatement plans for certain pipelines; providing for the imposition of a civil penalty.

Natural Resources & Economic Development

Relating to the modification of a possession order and temporary possession of a child when a conservator of the child is incapacitated.

Jurisprudence

Relating to the locations in which carrying certain weapons is prohibited and the applicability of a defense to prosecution for an offense relating to carrying a handgun in certain prohibited locations and associated notice requirements.

State Affairs

Relating to certain construction liability claims concerning public buildings and public works.

Business & Commerce

Relating to prohibiting a maximum age or age differential for prospective adoptive parents.

Health & Human Services

Relating to powers and duties of the Texas Workforce Commission with respect to work and family policies.

Natural Resources & Economic Development

Relating to the purposes for which certain counties may use county hotel occupancy tax revenue.

Natural Resources & Economic Development

Relating to the protection of certain occupational licensing information regarding clients of family violence shelter centers, victims of trafficking shelter centers, and sexual assault programs and survivors of family violence, domestic violence, and sexual assault.

Health & Human Services

Relating to prohibited local regulation with respect to a firearm or air gun.

State Affairs

Relating to advance directives, do-not-resuscitate orders, and health care treatment decisions made by or on behalf of certain patients, including a review of directives and decisions.

Health & Human Services

Relating to youth diversion strategies and procedures for children accused of certain fine-only offenses in municipal and justice courts and related criminal justice matters; authorizing fees.

Criminal Justice

Relating to conduct of insurers providing preferred provider benefit plans with respect to physician and health care provider contracts and claims.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the exemption from ad valorem taxation of certain assets used for agricultural production and to the authority of a county commissioners court to adopt an exemption from ad valorem taxation by each taxing unit that taxes the property of the portion of the appraised value of a person's property that is attributable to the installation in or on the property of certain water conservation systems.

Local Government

Relating to the confidentiality of certain biosecurity and other sensitive information shared with the Texas Animal Health Commission.

Water, Agriculture & Rural Affairs

Relating to a report by the Legislative Budget Board on the reliance by this state on certain dedicated revenue for purposes of budget certification.

Finance

Relating to the manufacture, transportation, storage, and disposal of new and scrap tires; authorizing a fee.

Natural Resources & Economic Development

Relating to notice of transfer of a used motor vehicle.

Transportation

Relating to the public retirement systems of certain municipalities.

Finance

Relating to standards required for certain rankings of physicians by health benefit plan issuers.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the regulation of used and scrap tires by certain counties.

Natural Resources & Economic Development

Relating to the system for appraising property for ad valorem tax purposes.

Local Government

Relating to the authority of the Texas Military Department to negotiate the release of a reversionary interest and certain other interests of the state in certain property in Palo Pinto County owned by the Palo Pinto County Livestock Association.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the governmental bodies required to post on the Internet agendas for meetings under the open meetings law.

Business & Commerce

Relating to coverage for mental health conditions and substance use disorders under certain governmental health benefit plans.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the removal of certain DNA samples from certain DNA databases.

State Affairs

Relating to notification requirements for law enforcement agencies regarding a missing child with an intellectual disability or mental illness.

Criminal Justice

Relating to a commercial landlord's remedies regarding certain unlawful activities on the premises of commercial rental property.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the establishment and operation of an ammunition facility by the Department of Public Safety.

State Affairs

Relating to civil liability arising from a firearm hold agreement.

State Affairs

Relating to a local area activation of the alert system for certain missing children.

Criminal Justice

Relating to county regulation of subdivisions and approval of subdivision plans or plats.

Local Government

Relating to municipal regulation of subdivisions and approval of subdivision plans or plats.

Local Government

Relating to the procedure for maintaining the qualification of land for appraisal for ad valorem tax purposes as qualified open-space land.

Local Government

Relating to the provision of the reason for rejecting a voter registration application.

State Affairs

Relating to the establishment of a supply of luggage by the Department of Family and Protective Services for the transport of the personal belongings of a foster child.

Finance

Relating to establishing the Border Security Advisory Council and the Border Protection Task Force.

Border Security

Relating to health maintenance organization and preferred provider benefit plan minimum access standards for nonemergency ambulance transport services delivered by emergency medical services providers; providing administrative penalties.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the eligibility of land for appraisal for ad valorem tax purposes as qualified open-space land.

Local Government

Relating to fentanyl abuse prevention and drug poisoning awareness education in public schools.

Education

Relating to the regulation of boarding home facilities.

Health & Human Services

Relating to Texas Fruit and Vegetable Day in public schools.

Education

Relating to authorizing the sale by the State of Texas of certain real property located in Austin, Texas.

Business & Commerce

Relating to prohibited relationships between holders of certain alcoholic beverage licenses and permits.

State Affairs

Relating to the right to try cutting-edge treatments for patients with life-threatening or severely debilitating illnesses.

Health & Human Services

Relating to a request for admission to a specialty inpatient stabilization treatment program by the Department of Family and Protective Services of certain minors in the managing conservatorship of the department.

Health & Human Services

Relating to certain administrative penalties and procedures associated with aging, community-based, and long-term care service providers and the establishment of a task force to study certain rules and policies related to those services.

Health & Human Services

Relating to access to and use of certain criminal history record information.

Business & Commerce

Relating to providing prevocational or similar services under certain Medicaid waiver programs.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the maximum rate or amount of interest of certain consumer loans.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the commissioning of peace officers by certain private schools.

Education

Relating to the timely reporting of criminal case dispositions to the Department of Public Safety and to the allocation of certain grant money.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the administration of certain assessment instruments, the accountability rating system for assessing campus and district performance, public school career and technology education programs, and an extracurricular and cocurricular allotment under the Foundation School Program.

Education

Relating to the transfer of certain real property from the Health and Human Services Commission to the StarCare Specialty Health System.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the calculation of certain ad valorem tax rates of a school district.

Education

Relating to electronic verification of health benefits by health benefit plan issuers for certain physicians and health care providers.

Health & Human Services

Relating to conducting certain medical examinations using telemedicine under the workers' compensation system.

Business & Commerce

Relating to unlawfully carrying a handgun in a motor vehicle or watercraft.

State Affairs

Relating to the exemption from ad valorem taxation of certain property used to provide low-income or moderate-income housing.

Local Government

Relating to the establishment of the vulnerable adult protection task force.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the qualifications, summoning, and reimbursement of jurors.

Jurisprudence

Relating to the partial count of electronic voting system ballots.

State Affairs

Relating to group health benefit plan coverage for early treatment of first episode psychosis.

Health & Human Services

Relating to an excise tax on, and storage, reporting, and recordkeeping requirements for, certain nontobacco nicotine products; providing a civil penalty; imposing a tax.

Finance

Relating to the eligibility requirements for grants under programs of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

Water, Agriculture & Rural Affairs

Relating to increasing the criminal penalty for the offense of unlawful possession of a firearm by a person convicted of a felony.

State Affairs

Relating to the design and issuance of specialty license plates to honor members of the military and for recipients of certain military awards.

Transportation

Relating to the taxation of cigars and pipe tobacco sold by certain remote retail sellers; requiring an occupational permit.

Finance

Relating to Medicaid coverage and reimbursement for non-opioid treatments.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the administration of a grant program to support community mental health programs for veterans and their families.

Veteran Affairs

Relating to information for the parents or guardians of pediatric cancer patients regarding risk of impaired fertility from treatment.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the authority of certain municipalities to use certain tax revenue for hotel and convention center projects and other qualified projects.

Natural Resources & Economic Development

Relating to authorizing certain municipalities to exchange certain property with a private person.

Local Government

Relating to the rights and duties of each parent that must be specified in certain agreed parenting plans and orders for the joint managing conservatorship of a child.

Jurisprudence

Relating to the issuance of specially marked driver's licenses and personal identification certificates to veterans.

Transportation

Relating to access to certain cemeteries.

Local Government

Relating to the issuance of an excess gross weight permit for certain farm tractors on county and FM roads; authorizing a fee.

Transportation

Relating to the meeting requirements for the Galveston County Juvenile Board.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the service area of the Houston Community College System District.

Subcommittee on Higher Education

Relating to the powers and duties of Port Freeport; limiting the authority of certain municipalities to regulate land use by Port Freeport; and the creation of a reinvestment zone containing property owned by Port Freeport.

Transportation

Designating December 8 as Special Hearts Day for a 10-year period ending in 2033.

Administration

Designating Palestine as the official Dogwood Trails Capital of Texas for a 10-year period ending in 2033.

Administration